Cooking with kids...

Growing up, I remember baking and cooking with my Mom a lot. My brother and I would help her do many things in the kitchen. We loved to make yogurt cake, it was so simple for kids. We baked countless cookies. We even helped with dinner every so often.

In trying to continue the tradition (and teach the kids about the kitchen) I cook and bake with my kids every once in a while. They have also helped with dinner several times. The other day we made sugar cookies. We make a mess, it's so much fun when that's part of the plan. We talk about Martha Stewart and how she makes cookies and cakes on TV. The kids love to taste and try and lick their fingers as we go. They didn't like the baking powder, but they really liked the vanilla-y sugar-butter. They measure and pour everything. I have to stop them from eating all the cookie dough. It was wonderful. And we used Christmas sprinkles to decorate.